Mind Quotes - Page 60

It is impossible to hold a grudge and have peace of mind at the same time. It would be like trying to have day and night exist in the same moment.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

Life is a state of mind.

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle sounds—in your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didn’t know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!

Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well- but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the more relevant questions of 'why am I writing' and 'what am I saying' and 'how do I keep it honest.

Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.